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Topic: Rainforest

Common Core Standards RI.K.1-- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.2-- With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. RI.K.5-- Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. RF.K.3a-- Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. RF.K.3c-- Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is. are. do, does). W.K.2-- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic W.K.7-- Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them). L.K.Ia-- Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

Suggested Student Objectives
 * Listen for when to pause for punctuation in a book
 * Identify words that begin with /h/, /k/
 * Learn that the letter Hh stands for /h/ and Kk stands for /k/
 * Write the letters Hh and Kk
 * Learn and use this weeks high-frequency words: he, no
 * Draw concusions
 * Writing a report

Suggested Additional Readings

Slowly Slowly Slowly said the sloth by Eric Carle What Color is Camouflage? by Carolyn Otto Lots of Spots by Lois Ehlert

Resource Links

BrainPopJr: Rainforest BrainPopJr: Camouflage

PebbleGo -> Earth and Space -> Earthscience -> Ecosystems -> Tropical Rain Forest

PebbleGo ->Animals -> Reptiles -> Lizards -> Chameleon

Activities 1. Rainforest Report __Materials: __ __Description __
 * Computer logged into PebbleGo
 * "Share What You Know" worksheets from PebbleGo
 * Pencil
 * Crayons
 * Students will select a rainforest animal (anaconda, piranha, macaw, tarantula, jaguar, boa constrictor, lemur, sloth, capybara, orangutan )
 * Then they listen/read all the sections of their animal
 * Next the will complete/dictate their "Share What You Know" worksheets with their favorite animal fact (I suggest cutting the bottom half off for the whole class and leaving the entire worksheet for more advanced students)
 * Students can then draw and label a picture of their animal.

2. In the Rainforest I See __Material: __
 * Chart paper
 * Marker

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Description: __
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After research various rainforest animals students will contribute a sentence to the classes collective sentence chart.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each student will finish the sentence “In the rainforest I see….”
 * If you would like students to do this individually: [[file:Rain Forest-Writing.pdf]]

Assessments 1. Students will recall rain forest animal facts and write them 2. Students will be able to label their illustration

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